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Struggling taxpayers have been forced to pay £3,000 for a painting of Chancellor Rachel Reeves preparing her first Budget, which will hammer families with record tax rises.
£3,000 Portrait Unveiled
The oil painting by Sally Ward shows Reeves in her 11 Downing Street study talking to aides about her financial plans. It has been acquired for the Parliamentary Art Collection using public funds from the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art.
Critics Slam ‘Total Lack of Self-Awareness’
TaxPayers’ Alliance campaigns director William Yarwood said: “Taxpayers will be framing this as a total lack of self-awareness from the chancellor. While Reeves tells households to tighten their belts and hike taxes even further, she seems perfectly happy for the public to pick up the tab for her own vanity projects.”
Reeves Calls It ‘Fitting Tribute to Women’
Reeves said: “When I stood at the dispatch box to deliver the first Budget by a female Chancellor, I was acutely aware of the generations of women who had fought to make that moment possible. I am deeply honoured that Sally Ward’s portrait will join the Parliamentary Art Collection as a permanent record of that history.”
- Taxpayers pay £3,000 for portrait of Rachel Reeves
- Reeves preparing £75 billion tax raid on families
- Critics slam “vanity project” amid record tax burden
- Reeves claims it is a “fitting tribute to women”
Reform UK: More Labour Waste
Reform UK has condemned the spending as yet another example of Labour’s out-of-touch arrogance. While families face £2,000 energy bills and a cost-of-living crisis, the Chancellor is happy for taxpayers to fund her portrait. Reform says public money should be spent on British priorities, not vanity projects.
What This Means for Britain
This is yet another example of Labour’s breathtaking hypocrisy. Reeves is imposing the biggest tax raid in decades while taxpayers foot the bill for her official portrait. The country is already at “peak taxation” with the burden heading above 40 per cent – and Labour is still wasting public money on vanity projects.
Reform UK’s message is clear: stop the waste, cut taxes, and put British families first. With local elections weeks away, voters can reject Labour’s failing government and back the only party that will deliver real relief on bills and spending.
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The madness goes on and we continue to suffer financially and socially
Absolutely disgusting I’m leaving this country why should tax payers pay for a painting of Reeves she’s absolutely awful not happy 😡
Surely it should not have cost that amount after all its only a painting of a turd and you know what they say you can’t shine a turd and pretend it’s gold!!!
Is there no end to this government’s spending spree…..What’s wrong with a photo? So much easier for the incoming Chancellor of the next government (Reform) to throw on the fire.